How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
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Gill's Exposition
How shall I pardon thee for this?.... Because of their manifold transgressions, and multiplied backslidings; or "wherefore, or for what, shall I pardon thee?" (r) as the Targum; can any reason be…
Barnes' Notes
Rather, Why, “for what reason” should “I pardon thee?” When ... - Or, “though I bound them to me by oath, yet they committed adultery.” The harlots’ houses - The harlot’s house, i. e., the temple of…
Here is, I. A challenge to produce any one right honest man, or at least any considerable number of such, in Jerusalem, Jer 5:1. Jerusalem had become like the old world, in which all flesh had…
Cambridge Bible
If the MT. be right, the transition to Jehovah's words is an abrupt one. Du., however, considers that an abbreviation of the common formula "Thus saith Jehovah" was misunderstood and so brought about…
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